By Lance Esplund, U.S. art critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News:

We are familiar with the inflammatory, controversial nature of works of art — from Manet’s “Olympia” to Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” — but we rarely encounter a political artifact as diplomatic as this one.

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